Employment Generation Schemes directs attention to challenges and opportunities of enacting direct job creation policies in developing countries and BRICS, including: China, Ghana, Argentina, and India. This exciting new volume investigates how the Job Guarantee might interface with other policy goals.

Autorentext
Poulomi Dasgupta, St. Peters College in Jersey City, USA Richard B. Dadzie, University of Hawaii-West Oahu, USA Antoine Godin, University of Pavia, Italy Josefina Y. Li, Bemidji State University, USA Nancy E. Rose, California State University, USA Pavlina R. Tcherneva, Bard College, USA

Inhalt
Introduction; Michael J. Murray and Mathew Forstater 1. Green Jobs for Full Employment, a Stock Flow Consistent Analysis; Antoine Godin 2. Ningxia's Ecological Immigration Program: What It can borrow from an ELR Green Jobs Program; Josefina Y. Li 3. Beyond Full Employment: What Argentina's Plan Jefes Can Teach Us About the Employer of Last Resort; Pavlina R. Tcherneva 4. Employment Generation Schemes and Long Term Development - a Case Study in India; Poulomi Dasgupta 5. The State, Employer of Last Resort, and Youth Employment: A Case Study of the National Youth Employment Programme in Ghana; Richard B. Dadzie 6. Neighborhood Unemployment Councils and the Importance of Grassroots Support for the Policy Success of the Job Guarantee; Mathew Forstater 7. Bring Back the WPA: Lessons from the Job Creation Programs of the 1930s; Nancy Rose